Improved bolt-cutter



oRRnN n. BUTLER AND parts.

l tatd tatcaatwt @Mina s'rnruEN 1f. DUNHAM, or MARSHALLTOWN, IOWA.

Letters` Patent .N 97 ,874, dated December 14, 1869.

IMPROVED BOLT-CUTTER.

V ',The'Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making4 part of the same.

To yall uhom 'it may concern Be it.` known that we, Ommx E. BUTLER and STE- PHEX RINNHAM, ot' Marshalltown, iu the county of Marshall, Vand State `ot` Iowa,

` the following` is a full, clear, and exactdescril'ltiou there- `oi, which will enable 'othersskilled in the art to make andluse the same, accompanying drawings, tication. Y

llhis invention, relates to h nprovcments in hand-in strunlents for cutting bolts.; and consists in the conireference being had to the `bination, with `thellandles,oian instrument, such as 'patented to 0. E. Butler, 1. Dunham, and G. K.

Wann, January 15), 1869, as an improved instrument for sharpenitn,r horseshoes, o1" a. cutting-jaw of peculiar construction, as hcrcinz'ltter described, whereby the said tool` is adapted, when this cut-ter isapplied in substitutionot' the cutter and jaw, as used tb1' 'sliarpening horseshoes, to cut ott the ends ot' bolts wit-h great tamay. l

Figure 1 represents a view, partly in section and partly in elevation, ot' the above-mentioned improved `tool for sharpening` horseshoes. l

Figure 2 is a `pcrslmftiveI ot' the improved cutter, l

which we use for cutting bolts; and

Figaro 3 is a top view ot' iig. 1, with cutters, repre-V sented in tig. ting knife attached.

bim'ilar lhe horsesh(ie-sharpening tool is provided in the h h have invented a new andl im proved Bolt-Gutter; and we dohercby declare that tbrnnnc; partot' `this speci-j oti, so that one corner rests '1, removed, and our improved bolt-eutletters of reference indicate correspondhnbr slot ofthe arm A, with amovable head or adjustingblock, 1, and a cutter, C, which operate in conjunction,fwhen the point of the calli bears against the block B; and the cutter is worked on its pivot D, by the cam-lever E, to scrape the surface of the calk, the cutting edge of the cutter (i being formed to extend across the end thereof.

Te now propose to arrange the said cutter just-ing-block so that the)v may be readily removed,

F, having a shear cutting-edge G, at one edge and extending from the point toward the rivet, and with this cutter we place the tool on the nut of the bolt to be cnt in the angle between the block' H, at the end ofthe slotted level' A, and the lower wall I of the slotted part of the while thc lower face K ot the cutter F rests on the top of the nut to be brought against the vprojecting screw-threaded end, by forcing'the levers together, to cut it oit',

Having thus described our invention,

We claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent-` l The combination, with the slotted lever A and camlever E, of the boit-cutter F, when all constructed and arranged, substantially as speciiied.

us, this 28th da v ot' September, 1869.

(1R-.REN E. BUTLER. Witnesses: STEPHEN P. DUNHAM.

A. P. Lownav, '.I. al. Moonnl and adl d and substitute in the place ofthe cutter C another cutter p said lever,

The above specification ot' our invention signed by 

